The Education of the Virgin

Provenance

Paris art market, 1998; (De Bayser, Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

The Education of the Virgin

Deshays, Jean-Baptiste

c. 1762

Accession Number

2018.67.1

Medium

red chalk with pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, laid down on old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 39.4 × 29.7 cm (15 1/2 × 11 11/16 in.) | mount: 47.3 × 37.2 cm (18 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli